EXPLANATORY
The land given out in this lottery was obtained from the
Creek Nation, in a treaty concluded at the city of
Washington, Nov. 14, 1805, and was added to the counties of
Baldwin and Wilkinson. The lots consisted of 202 1/2 acres
each.

Those entitled to draw were every free white male
twenty-one years of age and upwards a citizen of the United
States and an inhabitant of this state three years
immediately preceding the passage of this act and who had
paid tax, entitled to one draw; every free white male of
like description having a wife and legitimate child or
children under twenty-one years of age, entitled to two
draws; all widows with like residence, all free white
females, all families of orphans, under twenty-one years,
whose father is dead, one draw; those having neither father
or mother living, two draws, provided the persons did not
draw a prize in the late land lottery.

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No mention is made of Military service in this law and no
provision is made for the soldiers of any war.

We do certify that the foregoing contains a list of
persons applicants for draws in the present Contemplated
Land Loftery, with the number of draws to which they are
entitled in Maj. James Patterson's Batt. in Wilkes Co. Given
from under our hands this first day of Sept. 1806